TheCarConnection.com Looks at the Best and Worst Cars, Trucks and Concepts at This Year's Frankfurt Motor Show

DETROIT, Sept. 19 -- The Frankfurt Motor Show covers nearly a mile, end-to-end, and TheCarConnection covered just about every inch during media preview days. In this week's exclusive report on The Car Connection, get a comprehensive guide to the best and worst, the most interesting, the most creative, and the downright oddest cars, trucks, concepts and crossovers making their debut.

Get a close-up look at the new luxury benchmark, the all-new Mercedes-Benz S-Class; see how the Iosis concept vehicle could usher in a new era of striking Ford designs; get a look at all the new hybrid-electric vehicles unveiled by Mercedes, BMW, Audi and other makers; get a peek at what could be the next Mini; and check out the first Chinese autos to make their way to the West.

Readers can weigh in on the show and vote for their own favorites among this year's crowded field.

One of the big stories was the roll-out of Jaguar's next-generation XK sports coupe. A convertible is in the works and scheduled for display at next January's Detroit Auto Show. But why wait? TheCarConnection.com reveals the next Jaguar ragtop exclusively in this week's issue.

This week's issue also includes spy shots of the 2007 Jaguar S-Type, and the 250-hp Pontiac Solstice Turbo.

Auto shows usually bring out the most optimistic in industry executives, but not everyone was entirely upbeat. See what's worrying Wolfgang Bernhard, the former Chrysler COO and now the brand boss at troubled Volkswagen. Then find out why Ford's number two, Jim Padilla, is vowing, "No more timid designs."

Then check out TCC's guide to every hybrid car and truck on the market.

In TCC's new blog, TccConfidential, see what "Bangle butts" and show babes have in common, and why not everything went as planned in Frankfurt.

Let OnSite Mechanic solve your service problems. Find Kelley Blue Book pricing and more -- on the Web's Automotive Authority, TheCarConnection.com.

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